Over a ten day period, Study Group members met with many of the key agencies engaged in delivery of the UK PREVENT Strategy, including the Home Office, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the ACPO Community Tension Team, the Security Service, the Metropolitan Police and various representatives of local government and the NGO sector. [...] The ultimate purpose of the paper is to identify key lessons learned from the UK experience that could be used to inform the development of a counter-radicalization framework for Canada under the auspices of CACP. [...] Every police > The single-most critical component of PREVENT force in the UK is obliged to demonstrate engagement is the working relationships established between the with communities and local authorities through police and communities to identify and mitigate demonstrable links, relationships and programming at grievances and to take specific steps against violent the Borough Command Unit level. [...] CSIS and the RCMP, and all-source entities like the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre (ITAC) — has > Development of a comprehensive prevention of a responsibility to provide intelligence and analysis in radicalization strategy for Canada should be based on support of radicalization prevention and to develop broad knowledge and understanding of the experiences mechanisms to ensure “downward” inte [...] Nevertheless, the extremist and the criminal environments offer many of the same things to their members and adherents, including a sense of purpose and belonging and often a large measure of social cachet.